The scientists wanted to study Vesta, the second largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, which could give researchers clues about the formation of the solar system.
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UCLA Library announces winners of the Library Prize for Undergraduate Research
After weeks of searching through a research database, requesting books from different libraries and sifting through a scientific journal from the 1980s, Annie Chen finally completed her research submission ““ the effect of infrasound on the human auditory system.
Team engineers new phone device and app that will diagnose and track diseases
The team has engineered a cell phone device that, in conjunction with a smartphone application, reads rapid diagnostic tests and transfers the information onto an online server.
UCLA astronomers utilize MOSFIRE to study early, distant galaxies
On a cloudy Hawaiian night on the summit of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano in the Pacific, 11 people watched as the largest fully operational telescope in the world pointed toward the
UCLA clubs engineer Youth Motivation Day to boost student interest in the sciences
More than 225 middle school students fired rockets built from straws and clay, constructed towers out of paper and ate ice cream made form liquid nitrogen in Ackerman Grand Ballroom on Friday.